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     Traditional rubbish collection is dirty, smelly, labor-intensive, and rubbish can pile up in basements or
wooden bins. This new system does away with all that and with lots of expensive bin lorries.
     "Nobody sees anything happening, there's no bins, there's no trucks on street, there's no boxes, there
is no kids on the bikes trying to fight with dust cars going up on the street. It's safe, it's clean, and it's
healthy for everybody."
     This is how it works: you sort your rubbish into special containers in your kitchen, then take the bags
to one of these. They drop down into the building's basement. Twice a day, a powerful vacuum sucks them
away to a collection centre down a single pipe. First, the food waste, then general rubbish, then stuff for
recycling, like paper and cans.
     In the past thirty years, the system's been equipped around the world, from Stockholm to Barcelona,
Disneyland to Dubai, but never in the UK. One problem: it's expensive. Local councils don't pay the cost
of equipment. The developer here next to Wembley Stadium, says it makes sense partly because this
development is the size of a small town.
     "We own the entire site, the 85 acres and all the roads. And that's the fundamental that we control the
public ground. And we take a benefit of that because our public ground's going to be great as a consequence
of this system."
     "And this is where it ends up, the central collection centre. That great big green pipe is the outlet from
the underground network and laid in all the roads around here. These great big things are essentially enormous
intensive vacuum cleaner that will swirl (使旋转) the rubbish around, the air, goes off to the top. The waste
goes down to the bottom and then it is shifted to one of these containers where it can be put on to a lorry
and taken away." Environmentally, it's claimed the systems are great improvement, but it has a challenge.
1. Which of the followings about the new collection system is WRONG according to the passage?
[     ]
A. High price.
B. Labor consumption.
C. Big size.
D. Good safety.
2. Which is the right order when the new system works?
[     ]
A. Sort rubbish-put rubbish bags in basement-suck rubbish by a vacuum-shift to containers.
B. Put rubbish bags in basement-suck rubbish by a vacuum-sort rubbish-shift to containers.
C. Sort rubbish-shift to containers-suck rubbish by a vacuum-put rubbish bags in basement.
D. Suck rubbish by a vacuum-sort rubbish-shift to containers-put rubbish bags in basement.
3. According to the passage, the challenge of the new system is _____.
[     ]
A. to work economically
B. to take up the size of a small town
C. to equip itself in the UK
D. to be environmentally friendly
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